In Brief October 2009
The New Chrysler Approach to Suppliers: The New DOD Acquisition Model?
In a recent Wall Street Journal piece on the new Chrysler and its struggle to build new cars, the authors underscored a core challenge facing the new Chrysler management. (…) They just don’t have the suppliers lined up…
SM-3 Missile and Japan
Our sources in Tokyo tell us that the new Japanese government is rethinking in significant ways their relationship with the United States which might well include the SM-3.
The European Missile Defense Decision: impact on Con Ops and industrial ripple effect
In late September, the President announced the termination of the plans to place missile interceptors in Central Europe…
The “Other” F22 Debate: How to Sustain the Aircraft
The F-22 debate has been highly charged politically. It has been used as a symbol for “defense waste” and “high technology irrelevance” by its detractors…
